Plans to build 1,300km to help reduce flooding damage in Assam

There are reported plans to build a 1,300km highway in the north eastern Indian state of Assam to reduce the damage from regular floods.

Environmentalists have questioned how effective this will be, however.

Our India correspondent Rebecca Bundhun reports

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